Save a story of someone you love or a history you would love to know. 

Learn how to capture an oral history or a collection of histories from start to finish.

We'll go over the skills you will need for high-quality projects such as:

• Choosing your narrator and goals
• Preparing questions
• Mastering effective interview techniques
• Protecting your narrators' right to privacy and dignity
• Know production methods and the equipment needed to record, preserve, and share your interviews

To learn what works in interviewing and what doesn't, we'll watch and listen to Nobel Prize-winning Toni Morrison, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and Marylander civil activist Gloria Richardson Dandridge recordings. 

And to gain hands-on experience, we'll practice using Pratt Oral History Digital Audio Kits, which are available for loan to Pratt Library cardholders. 

Join us in the new Makerspace in the Central Library Annex!